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The Sino-Soviet Alliance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Robert C. North
Robert C. North
Affiliation:
Palo Alto.
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Western visitors to the Soviet Union report a growing Russian anxiety about Communist China and its inclinations and potentialities. The Soviet “man in the street,” who recalls what Leningrad and Kiev and Minsk and Odessa experienced during the Second World War, maintains a sober respect for the world's new weapons—whether nuclear, bacteriological or something even more dreadful that is only whispered about. He is increasingly ready to believe, moreover, that Western capitalist peoples share this sober respect, but Communist China gives him cause for deep uneasiness. Is it possible that China might trigger a war which both the Soviet Union and the West would prefer to avoid?

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 1 , March 1960 , pp. 51 - 60
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1960

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